Aug 19, 2010 0
Piccsy “It’s the scrapbook of everything you’ve ever thought looked beautiful.”
I stumbled across a very cool new social sharing site the other day called Piccsy and thought I would share it.
Piccsy is sort of like Flickr’s cooler & much sexier little sister who isn’t afraid to say out loud what everyone is already thinking quietly.
At first glance I might have just thought “YAWN …another image photo sharing platform where you can vote stuff up or down.” However, since my first glance of Piccsy included a semi-nude beautiful woman in pose + Hitler riding a magic carpet (see below for proof of this combo of awesomeness), there was definitely no yawning and it was clear that this was not your average photo sharing site.
Piccsy is a new social sharing platform that is trying to carve out its own content niche that focuses on the combination of beautiful photography of all kinds, interesting print & still art and random pop-culture imagery that people connect with. Other than the unique slant on the type of content, Piccsy is a lot like most social bookmarking and sharing platforms that we have become accustomed to in the last several years:
- User finds an image that is so cool it must be shared
- User tags it with the Piccsy tool
- User shares it to the site with meta data
- Crowd ranks the shared content by voting up favorites
- The end result is a community cultivated & prioritized gallery of Sexy-Coolness
Similar to other social sharing sites, as a member you have a profile and a profile page that is public. After a few days worth of looking at Piccsy content and selecting various pieces that you vote up, your “My Pics” page begins to become an really cool expression of your personality. A story about what you are interested in, …what motivates you, …how you see yourself or maybe what you wish you were all communicated via beautiful photography, art, posters and other visual statements.
Piccsy is in beta right now, but with 10,000 high quality images already in the community hopper and a large group of passionate beta members I think it will find a place for itself in the creative/ photo sharing space. Hopefully the community (and the site/ company founders) will ensure that Piccsy stays on the right side of that fine line between classy, cool, inspiring, different and wierd beauty …and a booby pic sharing site.
Go check it out. I bet you spend at least 5 – 6 minutes glued to it and flipping next, next next through the amazing imagery.
